as in ruse
a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end
a temporary suspension of the gas tax was just a crowd-pleasing juggle that was not a long-term solution to the energy problem
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as in to trick
to cause to believe what is untrue
everyone thinks that they are too smart to be juggled by con artists
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Recent Examples of juggle
Mike Valerio, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
Same juggle as always: working, hanging with the kids, figuring out after-school activities.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
Richard Deitsch, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
Jugging her schedule, juggling my schedule, and always being totally present.
—Colleen Kratofil, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Re juggles making meals, getting the older twins to school and back, changing diapers on the younger twins and making her own YouTube videos to introduce life in South Korea to the world.
—Mike Valerio, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
Same juggle as always: working, hanging with the kids, figuring out after-school activities.
—Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024
Verb
Joe Buck’s oldest daughter is getting married in Mexico this week, so the ESPN broadcaster was understandably juggling quite a mental load when The Athletic reached him on Saturday night following his call of the Kansas City Chiefs’ win over the Houston Texans.
—Richard Deitsch, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
Jugging her schedule, juggling my schedule, and always being totally present.
—Colleen Kratofil, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for juggle
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Back-to-school reality:Campus shootings rose dramatically last year Sheriff: Suspect used a 'ruse' to gain entry to the school The shooting occurred shortly after 1 p.m. local time on Wednesday, according to Honea.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA TODAY,
6 Dec. 2024
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They were given out-of-state weather reports to help play up the ruse in their small talk with customers.—
Joel Jacobs,
ProPublica,
23 Dec. 2024
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What began as an amusing alter ego created to trick a boss has now become a legitimate presence on credit reports, background checks and even tenant records, admitted original poster (OP) Cweev10 on Reddit this week.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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Elon Musk can try to trick gamers, to argue with them, to post their DMs against his own Terms of Service.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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In short, its core competency needs to be responding to predictable natural disasters rather than virtue-signaling about climate change that its expensive (but piddling in the global scheme of things) green-energy initiatives are powerless to affect one way or the other.—
The Editors,
National Review,
13 Jan. 2025
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The scheme, which launches on January 14th, is only available in Korea for now, with expansion to other countries planned for the future.—
Janhoi McGregor,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Some even provide fake documents to help scammers deceive others.—
Ryan Nawrocki,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Jan. 2025
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On the other hand, disinformation is misleading or false information shared with the intent to deceive.—
Jill Hopke,
The Conversation,
17 Jan. 2025
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The developers have also added new skills related to the dodge roll, such as the ability to leave behind an illusory copy of your character to act as a decoy, which make the new mechanic feel essential to the modernized gameplay the sequel implements.—
Diego Argüello,
Rolling Stone,
6 Dec. 2024
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In some other cases, the artists knew about the project and could use it as a tax dodge of their own.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
18 Dec. 2024
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However, others have questioned how she was so easily fooled.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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The attackers disguise themselves as fake Google Ads login pages to fool advertisers, who are then phished for their account credentials.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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But the way in which the device moves across the snow in snowboarding is very much a surfing feeling.—
Lea Lane,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Once enabled, the suite downloads AI models to the device for local processing.—
Thomas Westerholm,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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Some love playing fetch, while others gravitate toward squeaky toys.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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Jonathan Bennett is ready to make fetch happen at Christmastime!—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
21 Dec. 2024
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“Juggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/juggle. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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